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Coach Kids to Put Failure in Perspective: Lessons from the 2025 Wimbledon Men’s Final
Healthy parents aren’t just interested in their kids’ performance. Parents also care deeply about how their children emotionally interpret, manage, and learn from failure.
This weekend’s Wimbledon Men’s Final between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz gave us a world-class example of how champions process loss. Here are three powerful lessons we can draw from Alcaraz’s mindset to help our kids build resilience and perspective.
Thriving Through Adversity: Lessons from the 2025 U.S. Open for Financial Professionals
This past weekend, the drama of the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club was more than just high-level golf, it was a real-time study in how to respond when conditions get brutally tough. Oakmont, notorious for its slick greens, punishing rough, and unrelenting pressure, was a reminder that champions aren’t made when things are easy. They rise through adversity.
Habits of Champions: Lessons from Roland Garros for Financial Professionals
The 2025 Roland Garros Men’s Championship was one for the ages. A showdown between World #1 Jannik Sinner and #2 Carlos Alcaraz delivered one of the most thrilling Grand Slam finals in history—a five-hour-and-29-minute marathon of grit, brilliance, and emotional intensity. But beyond the scoreline, what truly stood out were the championship habits that both men displayed, habits that transcend the clay courts of Paris and apply just as much to the boardrooms and meeting tables of financial advisors.
Finish Strong: Master the Habits of Champions to End the Year Strong
When champions have a chance to win a golf tournament on Sunday, close out a tennis match in the 5th set, or achieve the goal they set for the season, there’s nothing better than playing to their potential coming down the stretch. Similarly, financial professionals strive to maximize their performance as they strive to achieve their year-end goals…
Managing the Pressure of the Moment: When is a Choke Actually a Choke
This past Father’s Day weekend, many golf enthusiasts sat in front of their television sets and watched Bryson DeChambeau impressively win the 2024 U.S. Open. The impressive win was DeChambeau’s 2nd U.S. Open win in 5 years and confirmation that he embraces the pressure of the moment. The other story line from this year’s U.S. Open final round was Rory McIlroy’s collapse over the last 4 holes of the event…
HABITS OF THE TOP 1% Execute While Others Procrastinate
How many times have you sat through a workshop, jotted down pages of notes of best practices, walked out the door inspired, only to get back to work, get distracted, and fall right back into your own patterns of doing business? To turn best practices into sustainable habits, you must, like Tiger Woods, execute while others procrastinate.
HABITS OF THE TOP 1% When the Game Changes, Champions Change How They Play It
With the PGA Tour FedEx Cup Championship wrapping up this September, it’s timely to reflect upon what financial professionals can learn from champions who dominated the PGA Tour this past year. For years, the golf community asserted that putting was what mattered most when it came to golf results. Well today on the PGA Tour, this long-held belief could not be further from the truth…
HABITS OF THE TOP 1%: Surround Yourself With Winners
If you are a fan of tennis, you likely followed Coco Gauff’s triumphant journey through the draw at Flushing Meadows to become the 2023 U.S. Open champion. Learn how to surround yourself with winners and other habits that champions like Coco engage in on and off the court…
Make The Most of Your Off-Season: How Champions Utilize Down Time to Take Their Games to the Next Level
Summertime is a time for family vacations, trips to the lake, barbecues, playing golf, and unfortunately a drop in productivity for many financial professionals. But enjoying the personal benefits of summer does not have to come at a professional cost…
Advice in Times of Uncertainty: Help Clients Overcome their Financial Fears
We are clearly living in uncertain times. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, spiking inflation, high gas and oil prices, and COVID impacts still lingering, the financial markets have responded with record volatility. Consequently, many clients are paralyzed by fear…